A lot of thanks, sincerely :-) The Altos is in good shape and working state and I consider a waste don't hack it a little. And, more important, I did a test and probe that I can manage it using the serial port of my laptop and one original Dec VT220 (that I use eventually to connect in old-fashion mode to SIMH by the same way, but this is other story). Only one point to clear... you speak about send IMD images in a tarball, isn't so ? Or perhaps... Do you speak about the single files of the disks (one by one) ? In this last case, I wonder if would be possible to send files to the Altos Xenix using 'cu' or something similar... Only assorted thoughts, you know... :-) Thanks again. Kind Regards. Sergio 2009/5/27 mike ingram <ingrammp at earthlink.net> > Hi Sergio > > I had given Dave Dunfield copies of a C compiler and some other > stuff that > I won on an Ebay auction a couple of years ago. > > Dave used to have a site at http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/ > museum/<http://www.parse.com/%7Eddunfield/museum/>img/index.htm > that had copies of this, but it doesn't seem to be working.. > ( anybody > know where this is now ???? ) > > Anyways, I had these disks: > > Xenix Development System version 3.0BS0, which includes 7 floppies, > SCCS 3.0B0 disk 1 of 1 > Spelling Checker 3.0BS0 disk 1 of 1 > Level II COBOL R2.02S0 RTS Rev 56 disk 1 of 1 > INFORMIX demo version 3.11B two disks ( not ALTOS, but with > INFORMIX > label on it ) > F77 Fortran version 1.2B0 disk 1 of 1 > C Compiler 3.0BS1 two disks > > Be glad to email you what I have .... I think I just put it all > into a tar > ball and gzipped it, after using Dave's ImageDisk program to > copy the > original floppies into something more moveable. > > Mike > > > > > > On May 22, 2009, at 4:51 AM, SPC wrote: > > Hello. I have one Altos 686 with Xenix 3.2 in working state. I > should like >> to install on it one C compiler and eventually the Ryan-McFarland >> Cobol >> for >> this platform if available. >> >> I remember something about IMD image disks available in some >> place in the >> Internet but I don't remember where. >> >> All help is welcome >> >> Kind Regards >> Sergio >> > >

Thanks, Mike. I know that some part of the stuff is non-Xenix... but my question was about the Xenix specific. What I told was something that perhaps Dave don't had in mind when it developed ImageDisk. I speak about write the output of one IMD image using ImageDisk... but in one RAW image, not in one physical drive. This raw image could be compatible with some of the emulators available actually, from SIMH to other for Z80 or PC platforms.

I checked it by myself. At least the first attemps made readable the content of IMD expanded with a simple "type". Thanks !

I had given Dave Dunfield copies of a C compiler and some other stuff that I won on an Ebay auction a couple of years ago. Dave used to have a site at http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/ img/index.htm that had copies of this, but it doesn't seem to be working.. ( anybody know where this is now ???? )